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Bruce Brenon has a simple explanation for why he and two of his employees flew from Southern California to Billings in the middle of a cold snap to install tens of thousands of lights on trees outside the historic Billings Depot. “It’s really hard to train people over the phone,” he said. (more…) Continue Reading →
A strategic plan for downtown Billings that focuses on more housing, cultural diversity, better traffic and pedestrian circulation and support for large-scale, multi-anchor development was unveiled Tuesday morning. A summary of the “Dream Big, Downtown Billings” plan was presented to about 60 people in the Royal Johnson Community Room of the Billings Public Library. (more…) Continue Reading →
Next week, a little more than 20 years after the completion of the Downtown Billings Framework Plan, an updated, overhauled version of that document will be unveiled at a public meeting. The new Downtown Strategic Plan, the product of a year’s worth of work by Billings residents and a consulting firm from Indianapolis, will be made public Tuesday at 8 a.m. in the Royal Johnson Community Room of the Billings Public Library. (more…) Continue Reading →
City College at MSU Billings will host a reception to present a newly restored fire truck to the Park City Volunteer Fire Department tonight at 6 in the Automobile Collision Repair and Refinishing Technology program lab. (more…) Continue Reading →
Mark Parker says a water-filled pothole on Woodland Drive in front of his house was so big that a pair of nesting mallards raised their young in it last spring. So he, for one, is glad that the city is planning to rebuild all the streets in his neighborhood this year. The project, he said, “is a breath of fresh air.” (more…) Continue Reading →
At a Billings City Council work session Monday night, Billings Mayor Bill Cole opened the meeting by reading a statement condemning recent acts of “deplorable, despicable, degrading” vandalism that carried racist and anti-gay messages. He said the hatred “has no place in Billings or any other community,” and he invited other council members to sign his statement, which will be posted on the city’s website. (more…) Continue Reading →
Life-size cardboard cut-outs of breastfeeding moms and their babies are going to start popping up around Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
In the aftermath of the big snowstorms at the end of December, more than 50 city of Billings employees worked around the clock one weekend to haul snow from city streets to the big parking lot at Amend Park. The intent at the time was to use the city’s new Snow Dragon Snowmelter to turn those massive piles of snow into water, to make sure the parking lot was available when soccer season rolled around again in the spring. (more…) Continue Reading →
The historic Billings Depot has announced that Michelle Williams will be taking over as executive director of the community-owned venue, replacing Jennifer Mercer effective March 1. (more…) Continue Reading →
Since SCRaP Billings was founded in the fall of 2015, it has made some major moves — conceptually and physically. In November 2016 the creative-reuse store and arts-education hub moved from South 29th Street into a two-story, 21,000-square-feet brick warehouse at Montana Avenue and North 18th Street. Barely a month ago, it started leasing a second building, a block away, the SCRaP Creative Annex, with 6,000 square feet, at 1702 First Ave. N. (more…) Continue Reading →
